MILLIONAIRES AND RELIGION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 115, 4 November 1911, Page 4

MILLIONAIRES AND RELIGION

PIERPONT MORGAN'S REVIVAL MOVEMENT. New York, September 8. The Sun announces that a new religious movement, financed by Mr: Picrpont Morgan and &■ score of lesser-known millionaires, ho.s been launched with the object of reforming the political and business morals of the I'nited States. A significant feature of the movement will be the entire elimination from its councils of the feminine element. "Vtqmen are not to be allowed to preach or take any part in the campaign," observed Mr. Frederick B. Smith, the captaingenoral of the new army of American missionaries. The departure of 500 ministers of the new religion was sped to-night at a great banquet held under the presidency of Mr. James G. Cannon, the head of the Fourth National Bank. Mr. Smith describes the protagonists of the movement as being insurgents in religion, and' saj's that they are going to do what progressives in politics are trying to do. "The deep general corruption exposed in this country during the last ten years." he observes, "can only be cured by religion. Among high and' low there exists the gravest concern as to where we are going. There is a scandal everywhere.

"Bankers and politicians have been shown to be dishonest and immoral. You can bur United States senators in Illiiois like sheep on a ranch. Tlift best men all over, the country are anxious to co-operate to do something to raise us from the slough into which we have fallen, but all ecorts will be useless until we employ a dynamic force that is rooted in religion." According to the plans of the financiers organising the progressive religious movement, thirty missionaries will , bo divided into teams of ten men. who will hold eight-day revivals in 7-0 cities of the United States. In each of theso places they will canvass the churches, business houses, shops and factories in order to enlist workers, who must arrange similar revivals in all the surrounding towns and villages. New York's revival will begin on October 2, In explaining why women will not bo. allowed to be recruited in Xew York, Mr. Smith exelaimer: There is no truth in this sentimental gush about woman's influence on man. You must send a real man after his' fellow-men if you wish them reformed. The work we have to do is men's work, and there will not be. a hint of woman in all this vast campaign.